Product Description

Whether it's a bowl of steaming hot chicken noodle sop when you're feeling under the weather or an elegant, beautifully garnished, iced concoction served as an appetizer - there really is the perfect bowl of soup for every occasion. Casual weekend lunch, simple supper, sophisticated starter, winter warmer or summer cooler - you name it, there's a perfect soup for it. Soup has fabulously rich history as a food that is enjoyed all over the world. Every country has their favourites, from Vietnamese pho and Moroccan harira to Scottish cock-a-leekie and Greek avgolemono. This colourful compendium brings together all the classics, along with new and contemporary twists on classic themes. With 500 mouth-watering soups, this book is packed with inspirational ideas for every kind of sop, broth, bisque, chowder, potage and consomme. Every page is filled with ideas and tips to ensure success - making it the only book on making soups that you will ever need. This title is the latest addition to Apple's best-selling "500" series. It is split into ten easy-to-use chapters. With fabulous soups for every occasion, take your pick from cool and chilled, smooth and creamy, healthy and wholesome, meals in a bowl or soups that you can whip up in 20 minutes or less.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1111 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
Susannah Blake is a freelance food writer and editor who divides her time between writing, commissioning and art-directing magazine features. She has written six books and contributed to numerous more. Her work also appears in various magazines including She, Living Etc, Now! and The Lady.

Customer Reviews

Very tasty!
Good soups, ingredients are easy to obtain (unlike some soup books), clear instructions and nice photo's. All in all a welcome addition to my extending soup books.

Fantastic Book, Delicious Recipes
We stumbled across this little treasure completely by accident, and have never looked back!

With hugely diverse soups from Creamy Courgette & Dill, Wild Mushroom with Sage, Creamy Chicken & Saffron to Malaysian Prawn Laksa, Moroccan Harira or Spicy Sausage & Bean soup, as well as the more unusual chilled soups to fruit base soups, there is genuinely something here for everyone. Our favourite sections are "Meal in a bowl", "20 minute treats" and "Asian flavours". The Thai/Vietnamese recipes in particular are so simple yet authentic, and all ingredients can be found in most supermarkets.

We are working our way through every recipe one by one, and have genuinely found them all to be so delicious that we've given up "scoring" them for future reference! This is a great find, and is an excellent book for anyone from the novice cook wanting a wholesome meal to the home chef looking to make a deliciously different start to any dinner party.

My only comment would be that "500 soups" is a wee bit of a misnomer. There are actually 90 base soups, each with 5-6 variations, but it's still impressive and is definitely value for money!!

Great book
This is a great little book, I lost this once during moving house and missed it soo much I purchased another one. I love the fact that it gives you a basic soup recipe and then suggests several variations. It is a absolute must for any soup lover. I currently have organic veggies delivered and find that I often have some left over, this book provides me with lots of ideas on how to use them effectively in different soups.